This is a follow up to White Angels Have No Wings. SPOILERS for that series will be unmarked.
Dahye and Yeonhwa
Years after her abuse at the hands of Baek Yeonwha, Yang Dahye attempts to move on with her life. She has a successful career, a lovely penthouse apartment, a family that loves her, and she's doing well for herself... but that changes when she finds a mysterious white-haired employee. And with it comes an unfortunate trip down memory lane and a chance for Dahye to get a chance at revenge. It seems that Yeonhwa has hung up her ways of torture and manipulation at the time, but Dahye has a hard time believing it. How true is it after all?
White Angels Get No Rest is the sequel series to White Angels Have No Wings by Gado. It is a Not Safe for Work series but can be found on the same site as its prequel.
Tropes:
- Am I Just a Toy to You?: After Yeonhwa points out that she was only supposed to be a replacement for her, Soobin doesn't take it well and slaps Dahye for it.
- Art Shift: There are some sections where the art turns to a Super-Deformed style for comedic effect. Strangely enough, this happens once in the middle of Yeonhwa assaulting Dahye.
- Ass Shove: An unfortunate one where Dahye gets a butt-plug tail glued inside her anus because Yeonhwa forgot to take it out before the lube she used dried. It was incredibly painful to remove it.
- Bait-and-Switch: The first sex scene makes us think that Dahye found Yeonhwa after all those years, but it is revealed in the next that it was a woman with a wig.
- Berserk Button: There's a lot of shit that Yeonhwa can deal with from Dahye, but she won't handle saying that her abuse is why Sohwa left.
- Chronic Villainy: Yeonhwa's relationships after leaving juvie always ended with violence when the girls realized how rough she was and didn't want to play along. After leaving Yeon-young, even while playing along with Dahye to keep Yeon-young safe, she falls back into her old habits once she realizes she has nothing left to lose. Even after meeting back up with Yeonyoung, she tries to tell her that this is how she expresses her love and doesn't realize how fucked up it looks.
- Destructive Romance: This is how the relationship between Dahye and Yeonhwa progresses. It ends up being more of a fight for dominance that they can't live without even when they attempt to maintain a relatively stable relationship. In the end, Yeonhwa thinks it better to break it off for Dahye's sake.
- Didn't Think This Through: After leaving the apartment, Yeonhwa decides to invite Lee in to see what her deal is with Dahye. It was only then that she remembered that Dahye never gave her the door code to the apartment.
- Enlightened Self-Interest: Yeonhwa worries about Dahye having a panic attack in the parking lot. Dahye thinks she's being condescending, but she genuinely wants to know if she's okay. How else are they going to drive home?
- Evil Feels Good: Yeonhwa remembers how good it feels to dominate people after settling down for so long.
- Evil Is Not a Toy: People seem to learn the hard way that Yeonhwa does what she wants and there's no true controlling her.
- Dahye thinks she can dominate Yeonhwa, but that only ends up backfiring. Yeonhwa proves that Dahye doesn't have as much control as she thinks once she realizes she has nothing to lose.
- Chief Lee thinks she can use Yeonhwa to get closer to Minhye through Dahye. Yeonhwa eventually proves to be too chaotic to be useful.
- Eviler than Thou: Despite all of Dahye's posturing over Yeonhwa after the latter attempts to go straight, Dahye is still insecure about doing what she does and can't get into the role fully to get her revenge on Yeonhwa. Yeonhwa can tell she is just lashing out. After pushing her revenge too far to the point that Yeonhwa thinks there's no point in obeying anymore, she breaks out of her holds and reminds her of why Dahye was afraid of her for so long.
- Ex-Big Bad: Yeonhwa isn't the person who starts the central conflict this time. At the start of the series, she's a Retired Monster.
- Expository Hairstyle Change:
- Yeonhwa got a haircut after settling down with Yeonyoung.
- Shi-ae's hair was longer before finding out about Minhye's relationship with Yoonseo. She grows it back out after leaving in the epilogue.
- Gone Horribly Right: Dahye manages to get Yeonhwa under her thumb and treats her like a pet to spite her, and everything went according to plan by manipulating Yeonyoung into hating her and leaving Yeonhwa with nowhere to go. The problem is that Yeonhwa is submitting to Dahye because she chooses to, and once her sadism comes back, she leans into the dog angle too literally for Dahye's taste to annoy her. And thanks to her getting Yeonhwa fired, Yeonhwa is now financially dependent on her and won't leave a comfortable life. In a sense, Yeonhwa did become her pet, and Dahye has to take care of her like one.
- Happy Ending Override: Dahye does this to Yeonhwa after seeing how happy she is in her relationship.
- Hotter and Sexier: While the first series did have many sexual and suggestive situations, this one has outright porn. At least half the chapters feature a sex scene or full nudity (with genitals still censored). Most likely justified due to the characters being adults.
- Ignored Epiphany: Even after everything catastrophically imploding how it did, Yeonhwa goes back to her old ways and tries to find a new toy.
- Inconsistent Spelling:
- Yeonhwa's new girlfriend's given name is either spelled Yeonyoung, Yeon-young, or Yeon Young. It changes from chapter to chapter (sometimes even within the chapter).
- Dahye's name is spelled "Dahae" in some chapters, something not seen in the previous series.
- Dahye's girlfriend An Soobin is the most egregious example. She has this with both her first and last name with different levels of consistency for each. Her given name starts as "Subin", but is later changed to "Soobin". Her surname is more inconsistent since it changes from "An" to "Ahn" depending on the chapter.
- Karma Houdini: Downplayed. Lee doesn't get arrested for sexually assaulting Minhye and she left the company on her own terms. However, Minhye still hates her guts and she is forever out of her reach.
- Last-Name Basis: Lee Shi-ae. She is mainly referred to as Chief Lee, Deputy Manager Lee, or (by Minhye) "Sunbae". Her given name is almost never used.
- Near-Rape Experience: Lee almost assaults Minhye when she is drunk, but stops herself from going down that way since it wouldn't be beneficial to making her fall in love with her.
- Nepotism: Everyone assumes that Dahye gets special treatment by not having to go to field inspection due to being the owner's daughter, so she voluntarily goes to show that she's serious about her work.
- Obliviously Evil: While it is implied in Have No Wings since she didn't know why Sohwa would reject her advances, that series also noted that she was a genuine sadist. However, this series solidifies the idea that all the torture and rough treatment is how she views love. She does know that not everyone can handle it, but she just thinks that she hasn't found someone who will go along with it. This is why she reacts badly to Dahye saying that her treatment is why everyone she loved left her and that Yeonyoung would do the same if she saw what she was doing.
- Pity the Kidnapper: Dahye's attempt to control Yeonhwa starts out working in her favor, but after pushing too far, Yeonhwa shows her that the only thing keeping her there is herself. Dahye ends up getting assaulted, slapped by her girlfriend, and stuck taking care of Yeonhwa financially.
- Play-Along Prisoner: When Dahye treats Yeonwha like her sex pet by tying her up and treating her like a dog, Yeonwha breaks out and shows that Dahye doesn't have as much power as she thinks before raping Dahye. She later leans into the dog angle to mess with Dahye.
- Porn with Plot: This series is much more frequent and explicit with its sex scenes, likely due to the characters all being adults in this one, but there is still a heavy focus on the plot even within those scenes.
- Psycho Lesbian: Deputy Manager Lee Shi-ae. She isn't as bad as Yeonhwa at first, but she is clearly obsessed with Minhye. She also hates Yoonseo, who she views as competition. She ends up raping her when Dahye and Yeonhwa are on the run.
- Pyrrhic Victory:
- Yeonhwa's antics make her think that she can have both Yeonyoung and Dahye. She ends up losing both of them by the end of the series, though the latter is more on her terms.
- All of Lee's careful planning and scheming are undone by Yeonhwa getting abducted. But it does give her a chance to have sex with Minhye. And she takes it by force. She got to have sex with her, but now Minhye hates her for endangering her sister and lying to her all this time. And of course, sexually assaulting her. After that, she has to leave the company and move away from Minhye, who is now forever out of her reach.
- Rape as Drama:
- When Yeonhwa realizes she has nothing left to lose by retaliating, she breaks free of her bonds and assaults Dahye.
- Lee, realizing that Minhye will never love her for deceiving her, decides to simply take what she wants when she gets the opportunity.
- Retired Monster: By the beginning of the manhwa, Yeonhwa has gotten out of juvie, settled down with Yeon-young, and gotten a stable job. Dahye's interference is what draws her out of retirement.
- Replacement Goldfish: Dahye uses Ahn Subin as her outlet to take out her frustrations about the trauma she had with Yeonhwa.
- Sexual Extortion: Dahye uses this over Yeonhwa to get back at her for what happened in school and this is how their relationship starts. She does the same to Yeonyoung for no reason other than opportunity.
- Sexual Karma: The sex Yeonhwa has with Yeon-young during her period of being a Retired Monster is wholesome and gentle. The sex that she has with Dahye after getting back into her old ways is violent and rough with Safe, Sane, and Consensual being optional.
- Stalker without a Crush: Although it may be debatable with how things progress, at the time of stalking, Dahye did not have a crush on Yeonhwa and was only out for revenge.
- Stockholm Syndrome: A double-sided one. It seems that the time being abused by Yeonhwa gave Dahye an unhealthy obsession with her that she eventually sees as love. Yeonhwa, after being held captive by her for some time, decides to play along with Dahye treating her like a dog and makes it work for her, eventually realizing that no one else could truly handle her brand of "love."
- Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Yoonseo. While she still gets nervous and anxious, she is notably less downtrodden and morose. She is truly happy for once in her life.
- Took a Level in Kindness:
- Yeonhwa seems to have improved since we last saw her. However, her tendencies still laid dormant until Dahye brought them back out.
- Dahye's father seems to be treating her better and making an effort to mend the relationships with his daughters.
- Unishment: Yeonhwa was coerced into the relationship with Dahye initially and was literally treated like a dog. However, once she has no reason to follow Dahye's orders, she starts to lean into the dog angle to mess with Dahye by ruining her revenge. Now she has a rich girlfriend who has a penthouse apartment with year-round air-conditioning and doesn't have to work.
- Why Can't I Hate You?: Dahye takes so long to kill Yeonhwa and the latter wonders why she doesn't just go through with it already. By this point, Dahye realizes that she still kind of loves Yeonwha. She just wants her to apologize for what she did, but Yeonwha refuses to do that. However, she still can't bring herself to kill her.
